Edwin Valero

Edwin Valero

Edwin Valero is the current WBC lightweight champion. Valero is a professional boxer from Venezuela. He is undefeated in his professional boxing career winning all his 25 fights. Valero’s boxing career was interrupted when he had a severe motorcycle accident in 2001. He had a fractured skull and had to undergo surgery to remove a blood clot. He was not allowed to fight in the US but last year the state of Texas gave him a clearance to fight. Valero defeated Antonio Pitalua via TKO last April to capture the WBC lightweight champion belt.

Valero was born in Bolero Alto, Venezuela on December 3, 1981.